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A self-guided audio walking tour of St. Andrews by-the-Sea, about five kilometres on streets with one long hill, from Indian Point along the waterfront and up through the town to the Algonquin and the Blockhouse. Passamaquoddy Bay is Peskotomuhkati homeland, and the Town describes Indian Point Park as sacred ground of the Passamaquoddy Nation; the Celtic Cross there commemorates Irish immigrants who died of hunger and disease while fleeing the potato famine. United Empire Loyalists founded the town in 1783 and laid out the grid that is still the basis of its historic district. The walk passes the Pendlebury Lighthouse, Market Wharf, the Sheriff Andrews House of about 1820, All Saints Anglican Church of 1867, the Ross Memorial Museum and Greenock Church, then the Charlotte County Court House and Gaol, the Loyalist Burial Ground, Kingsbrae Gardens, opened in 1998, and the Algonquin Resort, on the site of the hotel of 1889. It ends at the Blockhouse, paid for by the townspeople in the War of 1812. From a cruise ship in Saint John, St. Andrews is about a hundred kilometres away by road, so the ship's own excursion is the safer choice.
12 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 36 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 4 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Indian Point and the Celtic Cross, Pendlebury Lighthouse, Market Square and Market Wharf, Sheriff Andrews House.
All Saints Anglican Church, Ross Memorial Museum, Greenock Church.
Charlotte County Court House and Gaol, Loyalist Burial Ground, Kingsbrae Gardens, The Algonquin Resort, St. Andrews Blockhouse.
A ten-foot cross overlooking Passamaquoddy Bay toward Hospital Island, for Irish immigrants who died fleeing the potato famine.
The furniture, carpets, paintings and decorative arts collected by Henry Phipps Ross and Sarah Juliette Ross, shown as in a private house.
A wooden Palladian church begun in 1821 and completed by Christopher Scott with a design obtained from Greenock, Scotland.
A 27-acre garden on part of the former Flemer estate, begun in 1996 and opened in 1998.
A four-storey Tudor Revival hotel built by the Canadian Pacific Railway on the site of the Algonquin Hotel of 1889.
A two-storey wooden blockhouse on the harbour's west point, paid for by a subscription of the townspeople during the War of 1812.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 12 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 12 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in St. Andrews by-the-Sea — the Loyalist Town on Passamaquoddy Bay, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
12 narration points, including All Saints Anglican Church, Ross Memorial Museum, Greenock Church, Charlotte County Court House and Gaol and Loyalist Burial Ground. That is about 18 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 12 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.